LATVIAN BUTTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 8

LATVIAN BUTTER

CONTROL BY FARMERS' UNION. CHIEF FACTOR OF SUCCESS ACHIEVED. Latvian export butter is very well known on the world market. It has a steadily growing demand, and enjoys a very good reputation. To achieve this a great deal of care and good, serious work had to be done regarding the preparation of milk, its handling, etc. One of the chief factors for this success —namely, to produce butter of the present quality—must be mentioned, the Centra] Union of Dairy Farmers. This organisation has reached its present form after a series of reorganisational schemes, as well as concentration of production, and as from January 1. 1938, the practical results can be noticed. The organisation, embracing the whole co-operative milk production, has carried out a scheme of grouping several dairies into one in one particular district, with a view to cutting down production costs, to supply the towns with fresh milk, thus taking a new place in the nation’s milk distribution. At the head of the whole system stands the large Latijas Piensaimnieku Centrala Savieniba, whose central offices are situated in the capital, Riga. To this organisation the Government entrusted the sole right to export dairy produce abroad, as well as the distribution inland. The combined links of this great undertaking are the co-operative dairies. After re-organisation was completed there remained only 260 dairies and 1009 creamery centres. These dairies are equipped with the most modern machinery constructed, and the latest tachnieal appliances are installed.